Time and Commodity Culture Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity |
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| Author:
| Frow, John |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815947-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $410.86AUD $513.00 |
Book Description:
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Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, on tourism, on gift exchange and commodity exchange, and on the social organization of memory it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world.
Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, on tourism, on gift exchange and commodity exchange, and on the social organization of memory it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world.